Quinces

16cm x 14cm, oil on gessoed card SOLD
This painting is available as a limited edition print
Posted on Thursday 6 December, 2007 · share

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Sensational quinces. That blue is mesmerizing.
Ah! Those bright colors warm up a cold day! Thanks so much for this daily peak at such beauty.
amazing colors and brilliant idea after the last number of magnificent landscapes with quince trees. Just one question—what is a quince?
It’s a very dry fruit, tastes like crab apples, not to be eaten raw, but very perfumed and like a large lumpy apple. Mostly they make a substance called “Paté de Coings” from it which is like a solid bar of dried fruit (think apricots or similar). It’s good with duck or in a Tagine. These are the very same Quinces as in the landscape, I pinched them. There is a marvelous film, Spanish I think (or portugese ), called The Quince Tree Sun, all about a painter painting a painting of …. a quince tree. It’s a great word, Quince. that’s about all I know
Didn’t the Owl and the Pussycat dine on Something Something and Pieces of Quince?
I forgot to say that the painting is fabulous! Wish I owned it!
Thanks Julian—I like the word pinched almost as much as quince.